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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work in healthcare. Best I know, the hospitals and drs offices just recently were able to start sending tests out to private labs a few days ago and have started doing that quite a lot. Much easier as they can just order the test rather than ask the city for permission, less red tape and city takes a few days anyways. However, the test results are going to take a few days - and because tests only started going to these labs, the results aren't coming back yet. Look for an increase in cases next week depending on how quickly labs can churn out results after a massive increase in testing. This is probably not just DC, but everywhere. I think some places, but not all, are starting to get their own faster tests, but it takes time to get up in running.[/quote]

Yep. From DC Coronavirus site:
March 13, 2020

DC Public Health Laboratory (PHL) Coronavirus Testing Metrics as of 7 pm

Number of people tested overall: 69

Number of PHL positives: 8*

Number of commercial lab positives: 2

Number of PHL negatives: 49

Number of PHL tests in progress: 10

*This number includes: presumptive positives (6); and CDC confirmed positives (2)

What they don't report, or probably even know, is the number of commercial lab tests in progress. Seeing tons sent in the past few days, but they take several days to give the result. [/quote]

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